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Joe's Apartment is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by John Payson released in USA on 26 july 1996 with Jerry O'Connell

Joe's Apartment (1996)

Joe's Apartment
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Released in USA 26 july 1996
Length 1h20
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Science fiction,    Comedy,    Fantasy,    Musical
Rating55% 2.7503852.7503852.7503852.7503852.750385

Joe's Apartment is a 1996 musical-comedy film starring Jerry O'Connell and Megan Ward and the first film produced by MTV Films. It was based on a 1992 short film first made for MTV. The film was directed by John Payson, with computer-animated sequences supervised by Chris Wedge through Blue Sky Studios.

The main focus of the story is the fact that, unbeknownst to many humans, cockroaches can talk, but prefer not to, as humans "smush first and ask questions later". They also sing (as they do many times in the movie) and even have their own public-access television cable TV channel. Actors providing the roaches' voices included Billy West, Jim Turner, Rick Aviles and Dave Chappelle.

Synopsis

Penniless and straight out of the University of Iowa, Joe (Jerry O'Connell) moves to New York needing an apartment and a job. With the fortuitous death of Mrs. Grotowski, an artist named Walter Shit (Jim Turner) helps Joe to take over the last rent controlled apartment in a building slated for demolition. If Senator Dougherty (Robert Vaughn) can empty the building, he can make way for the prison he intends to build there, and uses thug Alberto Bianco (Don Ho) and his nephews, Vlad (Shiek Mahmud-Bey) and Jesus (Jim Sterling), to intimidate tenants.

Actors

Jerry O'Connell

(Joe)
Megan Ward

(Lily Dougherty)
Jim Turner

(Walter Shit / Voice of Cockroach)
Sandra Denton

(Blank)
Robert Vaughn

(Senator Dougherty)
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